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Coverage · July · 2026 · 22,740 articles

Tehran's Hormuz gambit is a strategy of last resort, not strength

Khamenei's Funeral, the Dollars That Stopped, and the Ceasefire That Wasn't: Reading Three Days That Reordered the Gulf

The Strait and the Strike: How a Renewed US-Iran Air Campaign Is Rewriting Gulf Risk in Real Time

Mashhad's Mourning Stage: Iran's State-Led Commemoration and the Politics of Public Grief

A rail line, a funeral, and the choreography of a regime under fire

Tehran summons British envoy as accusation-and-counter-accusation cycle returns to centre stage

The free-AI-curriculum moment: Andrew Ng's three-hour roadmap and the bigger race it lands inside

The arithmetic of a widening Middle East: what a 48-hour US air campaign inside Iran actually costs

A slip of the tongue, or a slip of the mask?

Seoul's twin verdicts: Yoon jailed, drivers denied — and the distance between the two tells the real story

OpenAI's GPT-Live is the voice assistant Apple and Google should have built first

Iran's farewell in Mashhad, and what the delay reveals about the succession machinery

Tehran summons the British ambassador over 'baseless accusations' — what the diplomatic theatre hides

The summer of '76 won't stop calling: why a child narrator is the year's sharpest guide to English neglect

Andrew Ng's free AI course lands as SeedVR2 pushes video generation into a new gear

Fernandez header caps Argentina comeback as Egypt cry foul — and New York's mayor weighs in

Syd's solo turn and the quiet arithmetic of leaving Odd Future

Tehran summons British envoy over 'baseless accusations' as Iran–UK rhetoric hardens

Doha's phone call and Araghchi's vow: what the latest Qatar–Iran exchange tells us about the next phase of US-Iran escalation

Even in death, a woman is rarely her own: an Indian essay on funerals and inheritance

Iran's army claims strikes on US-linked sites in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain after reported American action overnight

A new Little House, an old America: what the reboot is really selling

The Cloud Over Trump's Iran Truce, and the Markets That Refused to Look Away

US Strikes Inside Iran, Israeli Movement on Lebanon: Two Fronts, One Unstated Question

Netflix's 'Little House on the Prairie' leans into warmth — but asks a 21st-century audience to sit with the discomfort

Wellington edges toward the Ocean of Peace Alliance — and into Beijing's crosshairs

Delhi's monsoon reckoning has a security frontier too

'AI is colonisation 2.0': Indian documentary director puts Western AI labs on trial

The Iran Strikes Are Not About Bridges

Tehran's cameras roll: state cinema mobilised to record the Supreme Leader's funeral procession

Mashhad waits: a delayed burial, a fractured succession, and what comes after Khamenei

Iran's leadership transition begins: Khamenei's body departs Najaf for Mashhad

Trump's Iran calculus: deal talk meets renewed Strait strikes, with one eye on the cameras

Seoul's courts redraw the line between state power and the platform economy

Tropical Storm Maysak Leaves 39 Dead in Southern China as Floods Hit Rural Counties

Maine's Senate mess is a Democratic identity crisis, not a candidate problem

Strait of Hormuz on the edge: how a 90-target US strike on Iran redrew the Gulf's risk map in 72 hours

Iran strikes US-linked sites in Kuwait, Qatar and Bahrain hours after reported American aggression

Eight teams, one refereeing crisis: the World Cup quarter-finals begin under a cloud

Chelsea's £40m Quenda bet: a teenage winger, a Sporting pedigree, and the Premier League's pull

A railway strike at a funeral: reading the signal under the noise

South Korea's delivery workers lose at the top court — and the model that built the gig economy keeps its loopholes

The Strait of Hormuz Calculus: Reading the White House's Quiet Pivot Toward Extended Conflict With Iran

Khamenei's body returns to Iran: what Najaf–Mashhad tells us about succession, sovereignty, and the region's reading of the moment

Axios: White House braces for multi-day stand-off with Iran over Strait of Hormuz

When the trading floor starts selling itself: a small note on Unusual Whales and the new retail-data industrial complex

ECB digs in at Lord's over Euro T20, days after ICC Stokes row

Trump's Iran Pivot: Strike, Truce, and the Politics of a 20-to-1 Talking Point

Iran claims strikes on US-linked targets in Kuwait and Qatar as Hormuz escalation widens

The coffin at Najaf: parsing the messaging around a martyred Supreme Leader

Iran widens the perimeter: IRGC strikes on US bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and Qatar redraw the Gulf's risk map

Iran claims strikes on US bases in Kuwait and Bahrain as tit-for-tat cycle opens new Gulf front

A funeral in Mashhad, and the choreography of succession

San Francisco's $1.7m median is the wrong headline

Trump offers Ukraine a Patriot missile licence. Production is years away — and that is the point.

Moscow says it foiled attack on senior defence official; Kyiv role alleged

Strait of Hormuz strikes: what the U.S. says it hit, what Iran says it lost, and what neither side has shown

Trump floats Patriot production licence for Ukraine as oil-price comments roil markets

Strikes, Signals, and a 36% Bet: Reading the US-Iran Brink

Second day of US strikes on Iran hits roughly 90 military sites as Geneva accord signing looms

Forty-Eight Hours That Broke the US–Iran Ceasefire: Strikes, AI Imagery, and a Delisted Syria

Trust, not tech, is the bottleneck: VAR and the World Cup's quiet referendum

Kyiv's Drone Doctrine Is Outpacing Moscow's Airframes

India's enforcement arm and the optics of high-altitude football: what two scandals say about who the rules actually bind

Khamenei’s coffin departs Najaf: succession clock starts in Tehran

A World Cup of late goals and unlikely runs: how this tournament is rewriting its own record book

Strikes on Bahrain and Kuwait: what we can verify about Iran's claimed retaliation against the US Fifth Fleet

The 48 hours that broke the ceasefire and reset the Iran file

Khamenei's body leaves Najaf for Mashhad as Iran delays final interment

Haaland outgrows Manchester City on Instagram — and now faces Kane with a World Cup semi-final on the line

Italy's summer of fire and lava is a stress test, not a freak show

Iran stages a leader's farewell — and signals who it wants watching

The dollar is losing its cheerleaders, and the president's still cutting ribbons

France-Morocco clash looms as Paris tightens security around World Cup quarterfinal

France-Morocco isn't just a quarterfinal. It's a test of who gets to host the world's game.

A funeral procession in Tehran, and the choreography of succession

The Quiet Repricing: How a Cooling Fed, a Wobbly Dollar, and a Stretched Equity Market Are Rewriting the Map

Patriot Licences and the Optics of Patience: Reading Trump's Ukraine Turn

Greenland, Kharg, and the Geometry of American Extravagance